Anything related to the genealogy of my grandkids. Surnames include: Broekman, Gast, ten Bruggencate, Seidler, Tiffany, Richstein, and many more
Martha Mayer (dutch link) was born 2 Apr 1882 in Schifferstadt in the Pfalz, 8th child of Leopold Mayer and Henriette Julia Wolff. She is my husband’s grand-aunt on his mother’s side. As I realized that I had only secondary sources for her and her siblings’ birth dates, I spent the …
Today being Easter Sunday, I thought I would try to see whether any one in my database was actually born (or baptized) on Easter Sunday, April 1. Interesting enough, none of the Jewish ancestors was born on April 1. Easter fell on April 1st in the following years: 1714, 1725, 1736, 1804, 1866, 1877, 1888, 1923, 1934, 1945, …
Christopher Tiffany was baptized 31 Mar 1639 in St. John Hackney in London, as son of Henry Tiffany and Elizabeth.(1) He is my son-in-law’s 8th great-grand-uncle. Nothing more is known about him, but his eldest brother Humphrey came to Massachusetts before 22 Jan 1663(2) and left a lot of progeny. …
Hendrik de Haan (dutch link) was born 28 Mar 1890 in Nieuwe Pekela in Groningen. He was the eldest son of Ulpen de Haan en Geertje Starke, and the brother of my grandmother Afina de Haan, thus my granduncle. But because my grandmother married her 1st cousin, Hendrik is also my …
Gerrit Lucas Broekman (dutch link) died 27 Mar 1871 in Warnsveld, Gelderland. He was the son of Gerrit Lucas Broekman and Johanna Maria Peterson, and he is my husband’s 2nd great-grand-uncle. He was born in 1819, and became a pastry baker unlike his father who was a bread baker. I love …
Wilhelmina Schmidt was born on 26 Mar 1757 in Aldenbringsback, Germany, a place I have not been able to locate as of …
Geeszijn Jans was baptized 25 Mar 1764, youngest child of Jan Geerts Luirts (dutch link) and Hindrikje Hindriks. She was a half-sister of …
Preserved Pickering was born on 26 July 1796 in Mendon, MA and died 24 Mar 1866 in Gibson Township, PA. His is …
Thomas Wilkinson Furnas was born 23 Mar 1768 in Bush River, SC, fourth child and third son of John Furnas and Mary …
Afiena Scholte was born 22 Mar 1901 in Nieuw Buinen, a small village in the province of Drenthe, the second child and …
